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110 pounds of honey and plenty for their own use. I would not do 

 without my bees, as I think honey and pancakes good enough for 

 anybody." 



D. J. FRASER, Peabody, Marion county; fifty-four stands. "I use 

 Italians crossed with the German bee. Alfalfa is best in a medium 

 wet season. Bees seem to care nothing for it if season is very dry or 

 very wet. Like all other stock in Kansas, bees require some intelli- 

 gent care. If properly mismanaged they seem to swarm world with- 

 out end." 



FIG. 6. (Original.) Honey-bee on white clover. From photograph. 



F. H. MILLER, Great Bend, Barton county. "I had thirteen stands 

 in the spring, and have twenty-eight now. Have taken 1200 pounds 

 of comb honey, all alfalfa. It is a good honey plant. There is but 

 one clover that beats alfalfa, and that is alsike. I have a small patch 

 which blooms eight or ten days earlier than alfalfa, and the bees are 

 thick in it from morning till evening. Alfalfa is a good and delicious 

 honey plant, and produces a fine-flavored honey, better than Colorado 

 honey as there is no other flavor mixed with it. I sell my honey at 

 fifteen cents per pound, while Colorado honey sells for ten and twelve 

 cents. A person cannot expect something for nothing. Take care of 

 your bees and they will pay as good profit as anything I know of. 

 I am in the hardware and agricultural implement business, and have 

 little time for bees myself. Mrs. Miller, however, thinks more of the 

 bees than anything else, and enjoys taking care of them. I think if 

 more wives and daughters would take it up it would be better for 

 them. They would find it a very good and enjoyable business. If a 

 bee stings sometimes, it is good for rheumatism, and there seems to be 



